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Text: My browser when I open the 42nd tab and beyond
A 2 panel image of Michael Jordan: Stop it. Get some help.
“Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400+ Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years”
Somehow, not an Onion article
Last year I had 2200 or something like that open, but I haven’t counted this year. FF handles it fine. Chrome wasn’t ever able to handle more than a hundred or so. I haven’t used chrome in 6 or 7 years now though.
why not just bookmark that stuff and close the tabs?
More like save the whole session for later use. Who the hell saves hundreds of even thousands of bookmarks?
i save everything i think i may find useful later. i have categorized them into a few folders. but still not hundreds.
I don’t really understand how bookmarks would help. Like, let’s imagine you’re in your office doing research and your office happens to be the Library of Congress. You have a bunch of books with different references open on the table. You need to go to sleep. Is it easier to write down every single page you have bookmarked and put it on a piece of paper on the table, then close all the books put them back on the shelf, go to sleep, wake up, and then take all the books back off of the shelf, reference your paper, and open every book again back to those pages to continue working? I very much doubt so. Bookmarks are one of the worst inventions of the browser honestly. They do not accomplish anything they mean to. I use bookmarks for one thing. Pages I visit daily and don’t need to remember context in. e.g. github repos. And then I use vimium to navigate to them with fuzzy search. Working projects always stay open and I use Sidebery to maintain groupings.
i thought we were talking about random tabs that have been open for a long time. ofc i wouldn’t close ones that i’m working with.
I’ll never really understand this, I just bookmark stuff. I’ve never had more than maybe 15-20 open at the same time my entire life… Usually it’s just 5 or 6 max.
I don’t even now how anyone keeps track of them and finds the ones they want. And how can you possibly do that quicker than just going to the page afresh.
Part of working on a project for me is assembling links to important pages. It may be days, weeks or months later that I want to come back and there are the links. And of course, anything generically or regularly useful is just a bookmark as you say.
It really seems like people keep tabs open just to keep a list of useful pages. There are much easier and more effective ways to do that.
Yeah, I’m in the same boat.
I’ll have a lot of tabs open with documentation and such as I’m working on things, but at the end of the day they are all either bookmarked if I need to continue the next day, or closed as I close my browser.
Then we have people like one of the consultants we have, that has 100+ tabs open, in several browser windows (different profiles), at all times. I wonder how much money we’ve wasted on him just by waiting for him to find the right tab when he wants to show us something in meetings…
That dude is just slow and doesn’t understand his tools. I have several thousand tabs open and it takes all of half a second to jump to any one of them. FF allows you to search open tabs just by using the address bar. Let’s say you’re researching camera lenses and you have 5 youtube videos open, several forum posts, the lens maker’s website open, and a bunch of different sales websites like adorama and b&h open. Do you literally bookmark those and close them all to end your day and then just reopen them the next? Why not just leave them open. FF handles it fine.
Same, as soon as I have to scroll in order to navigate my tabs I just instinctively go on a closing spree
I didn’t even know you could get to the point of scrolling tabs, lol!
The sense of loss when you can’t get them back for some reason. I swear I’ve had my career set back by losing my tabs. It’s basically my working memory.
Right? I’ve been training myself to use this one weird browser feature I hardly ever use called “bookmarks.” Shits wild
Once you hit 99+ in Firefox on mobile it changes to ∞
Chrome went to a :D above 99. But I believe they changed that, not sure as I use FF now too.
I once closed 9k tabs on the phone. I swear I felt a mild earthquake and power went off in the whole building. Eye of google appeared before me with hissy “I see you”
The thing is, that eye is always there, even when you don’t see it!
Guess I need rehab.
Tree style tabs is my enabler 😖
Oh no don’t make me install this
65 on my phone. None of them are junk, one is the new tab page so I can search immediately. 🤷
Stop it. Get some help.
Fuck off.
You guys have numbers? I have the infinity sign on every new device within days
42? If only I could have so few 😅
You mean 420
Tab suspender and session manager goes brrrr
I’ve had about 1000+ tabs open before, but I’ve gotten better at keeping them under control. It’s very normal for me to hit a couple hundred, once in a while, though, before I go through them all and weed out the ones I’m done with. Right now I only have 24, but 19 of them are my pinned tabs that are used all the time.
Bookmarks exist for this reason, man
Only 42?
Yeah, I usually hover around 300-400 open tabs. I clean them up once in a while but it just builds up again.
I had to install a plugin to just close tabs I hadn’t viewed in a while. I’m certainly not going to develop better tab discipline
jesus 20 is already way too much
